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All those fake Christians have to do is read the words in red in the New Testament. And they can't even do that.

Would it be too much to also ask them to at least try to make sense of it as a whole?

Unfortunately, there are too many people who do read the Bible, and distort the meaning of its message.

Or they can meet Mike Johnson at the truck stop for Bible study in the 18 wheelers

As someone with an actual seminary education, amen and amen. My favorite was the guy on Instagram who confidently told me that the verses in Leviticus concerning welcoming the stranger no longer apply since Jesus said God helps those who help themselves 🙄

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I read the old and new testament. Took me 8 months. This is what I learned...

I’m an agnostic theist. I’ve read it from cover to cover the King James Version even, but I also enjoy reading Shakespeare and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on.

They generally can't read. Comprehension?

Even just one page lol Might kinda change your views a bit 😉

I love it when people like that decide they want to talk bible to me, and the shock when they realize i have read it. They back pedal every damn time.

I have and as a work of fiction it's pretty crap , ( spoiler ) the butler did it in the library with a candelabra .

Reading the Bible and using a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to translate caused me to renounce Christianity. 😉

The most religious are not.

Reading it is a great way to get people to leave the religion.

“Two Corinthians walk into a bar.”

Doubt they would be able to make sense of it.

They can’t read unfortunately

its largely very boring and god kills a lot of people

They wouldn’t comprehend it, even if they did read it!

Well, they have to be functionally literate to understand it so ... 😱 Otto: Apes Don't Read Philosophy! Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3a...

IDK what good it does to read the Bible ~ everybody gets different interpretations, everybody believes what they want to about it. And there are so many religions in the world ~ none of them right! Just be good people... and hope Someone comes to save us.

or Scriptures; I would try to be a good person, try to live by example. I don't think I ever claimed to be a "christian", unless trapped. When asked "are you a christian"? My preferred response was "Well, I believe in God", but followed w/ the argument that what we believed abt God differed. 2/2

At least the sermon on the mount

Or studied it enough

Yes that too.

Better off if they just threw it in the trash and concentrated on the real world.

The Gospels especially

Nice fairytale

If your husband dies without giving you children, you may lay with his brother to have a child and that child will be of your husband. If his brother refuses thou shalt remove his shoe and spit on him.

I received as a gift a bible. I started to read it and could not get past genesis. Adam and Eve had 2 sons that ‘married’ their sisters? I guess I have too much scientific knowledge keeping me from believing nursery rhymes.

THIS^ Conservative American "Christians" would call Yeshua (aka Jesus) a brown, Middle Eastern, and terrorist socialist and crucify him again.

And maybe read the New Testament twice.

100%

I would be happy if they just read the words that are written in red. You know ... The j*sus parts.

Nah, too much work.

All the way through in order. Without reprogramming sessions in between reads

They’re hypocrites!

A relationship that emphasizes care for creation. So turning the atmosphere into a giant convention oven serves greed at the expense of such a creation.

It's only in the last 30-40 years someone could be charged with raping their wife in "Christian" countries.

What for? If you lived according to the Bible you would be nuts.

It's a well known fact that actually reading the bible is the leading cause of atheism

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I’m going to start producing cylindrical bibles to shove up a MAGA asshole

This is a monkey see, monkey do world. Spirituality is ability rather than learning.

Indeed

Word.

Bible is a collection of goat herders' stories, written by men who lived hundreds of years after the claimed incidents. In times most people didn't read or write. It's been collated and revised over 2000 yrs, main purpose being to keep power in the hands of the ruler of that particular time.

As a published Bible scholar, I hear you.

I don’t put any stock in it personally but yeah I wish they would….

they just cherry pick what they approve of

They only read the parts that agree with their prejudices.

Well to be fair it's full of all sorts of violent and racist shite along with a few good bits about peace.

Or, just not believe in fairy tales.

Why would Trump read it,he isnt in it?

The actual one, not the twisted version their church wants them to

They would then become atheists 🫤

I still want to know what giants there were in those times. That’s one story most tribes would agree with and all have the same description. Over nine feet tall, red hair and cannibal

I have. It was hysterical. You people can’t be serious!

Both Testaments.

The Bible is the most important piece of literature ever written.

Especially Matt 25:36-41

You'd think some of them would have encountered Ezekiel 16:49-50 and Deuteronomy 27:19. They're purposefully being kept from those scriptures by those described by I Timothy 6:3-5.

Amen, Olga.

They would actually be even more delusional if they did.

I heard it has dragons in it.

Nope, nope, nope, *licks thumb and turns page* yup that sounds good, nope nope.

I ask to see the Bibles; you HAVE to ask to see the Bibles. Some denominations have been retooling the bible into "clearer" interpretations and they are SHOCKINGLY loose with their interpretations. Ask to see the Bible in Question, some of them have Jesus commanding his followers to kill.

Looks like Pharaoh's being punished 😏 𓂀𓂀𓂀𓋹𓁈𓃠𓆃☥𓅓𓆣

It would be no different than judges & lawyers interpreting the Constitution. They just twist the text into whatever they want.

If more Christians read the Bible, there would be fewer Christians.

Leave them alone 😔

Yup

I have read the Bible, and I agree with this statement.

A lot of them seem like they have never got as far as the New Testament

Actually, all they need to do is look in a dictionary for the definition of “kindness” and follow that.

No amount of reading books will make any difference if the heart is not already compassionate!

And having failed to do so, please refrain from trying to make everyone else read it!!

reading is haaaard.

You should read Separation of Church and Hate by @johnfugelsang.bsky.social phenomenal book and it will arm you against Christian Nationalists nonsensical arguments.

Maybe the "christian influencer" and Paxton could do that while on a holiday together. They were both married when their affair started. Both claim to be christians.

And find out more about it’s origins and who put it all together!

More people should read this!

To stay fair,,, the Bible is full of hypocrisy.

I agree in principle, but I do worry some of them might try and reenact the Old Testament.

I feel the same way about people who love America -- of only they'd read the Constitution once

Easier this way. 😀 The Bible in Limericks: Each Chapter in Verse The fast, fun and irreverent way to find out what's in it! mybook.to/biblelimericks

Which "version"? Best to go to the Dead Sea Scrolls for New Testament meanings.

To which I add The Whole Thing, read the bible, all of it, it's filled with rape, murder, genocide and above all SLAVERY! No wonder the Fascists love it so.

They'd be very upset if they could read

We should really give some thought to Noah and his ark. After all, it was the first rescue mission in the history of biodiversity. But the question we have to ask is: what had the human chains already wiped out back then, if the pitiful remnants could all fit onto a boat like that?

Problem is upon lifting the bible up they agree to drop any intelligence they may have had, thus reading is a sin to/for them.

I grew up in Texas and was taught the Bible. I realized it was an interesting story but very similar to all the othe religious text. None can be taken literally as they were all passed by word of mouth long before books were available.

The more you read it the closer you come to realize it’s a fairy tale. Religion is the greatest scam ever conceived.

Hell of a romp...

To be fair though, it is a boring and confounding slog that often contradicts itself and in the end really doesn't make much sense.

christians can't read....

Poor reading-comprehension skills.

I know people who actually read it but they don’t understand it.

Especially if they would read the RED LETTERS of the Bible...you know, Jesus' words.

Certain evangelicals I grew up with blamed Katrina on voodoo. It doesn’t matter they’ve *read* the Bible. They don’t get it at all.

you are asking for a miracle, which is ironic in itself.

There's a lot of murder, madness & mayhem in it. Not something to live by.

With historical context, please. And the knowledge that all religious stories borrow from one another, because who doesn't love a good story?

How often have you read any book several times, says don't remember that last time I read it? King David nearly didn't exist nor his line to Mary, if Judah who married a Canaanite, didn't sleep with his daughter-in-law Tamar who was a jewess. Think about that Genesis 38

No sis has gnosis, the patriarch said, And if you don't like my version - then off with your head! It's all for Jesus, the preacher went on, He turns a blind eye when I'm banging your son. God's holy rules are for you and not I, Only the white man has a friend in the sky.

And start at the beginning with the Old Testament.

Alot of atheists know it better

Yet they quote Paul